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objects like glass beads and copper or 

brass kettles. Bradley donated the 

collection to the Robert S. Peabody 

Institute of Archaeology in 1994. The 

733 unassociated funerary objects and 

objects of cultural patrimony are 32 lots 

of faunal remains and modified faunal 

remains; 87 lots of metal items and 

fragments; 34 lots of ceramic sherds, 

pipes, pendants, and ceramic fragments; 

550 lots of stone tools, stone debitage, 

and stone items; 24 lots of beads; one 

shell button; one stone effigy; one gun 

flint; one lot miscellaneous items; one 

whetstone; and one glass shard. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological 

information, geographical information, 

historical information, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Robert S. Peabody 

Institute of Archaeology has determined 

that: 

• The 733 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• The 733 cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Onondaga Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 12, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Robert S. Peabody Institute of 

Archaeology must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Robert S. 

Peabody Institute of Archaeology is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 6, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27379 Filed 12–12–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037066; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Field 

Museum, Chicago, IL 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field 

Museum has completed an inventory of 

human remains and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

collected at an unknown location or 

locations. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation 

Director, Field Museum, 1400 S Lake 

Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, 

telephone (312) 665–7317, email 

hrobbins@fieldmuseum.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Field Museum. 

The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. Additional information on 

the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by the Field Museum. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were 

collected at an unknown location or 

locations. The human remain is a hair 

clipping belonging to one individual, 

identified with the tribal designation 

Wyandotte (Field Museum catalog 

number #193207.9). Field Museum staff 

believe this hair clipping was collected 

under the direction of Franz Boas and 

Frederick Ward Putnam for the 1893 

World’s Columbian Exposition in 

Chicago. The hair clippings were 

accessioned into the Field Museum’s 

collection in 1939. No information 

regarding the individual’s name, sex, 

age, or geographic location has been 

found. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: historical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Field Museum has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the 

Wyandotte Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 


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identified in this notice and, if joined to 

a request from one or more of the Indian 

Tribes, the Huron-Wendat Nation, a 

non-federally recognized Indian group. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 12, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Field Museum must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Field Museum 

is responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 6, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27380 Filed 12–12–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037056; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Missouri Basin Region, 

Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, 

McCook, NE 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area 

Office (Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas 

Area Office) has completed an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects and has determined 

that there is a cultural affiliation 

between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects and Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

in this notice. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, 

and Phillips Counties, KS, and from 

Frontier County, NE. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Catherine Griffin, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area 

Office, 1706 West 3rd Street, McCook, 

NE 69001, telephone (308) 345–8324, 

email cgriffin@usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Reclamation 

Nebraska-Kansas Area Office. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas 

Area Office. 

Description 

14JW–HOFTS 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Jewell County, KS. Sometime prior 

to 1982, a private citizen reported that 

human remains were exposed on the 

south shore of Lovewell Reservoir. 

Native American archeological sites 

with fragmentary human remains are 

known to erode from the south shore of 

Lovewell Reservoir. These sites date to 

either the Plains Woodland period (A.D. 

1–1000) or Plains Village period (A.D. 

1000–1500). The Kansas Historical 

Society (KHS) assigned Unmarked 

Burial Sites (UBS) case number UBS 

1991–52 to the human remains. The box 

was labelled ‘‘Hofts Collection.’’ In 

1995, Reclamation transferred the 

human remains to the Wichita State 

University’s Biological Anthropology 

Laboratory (WSU–BAL) for inventory 

and secure storage. The fragmentary 

human remains belong to a young adult, 

probably female, 20 to 30 years of age. 

No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

14JW312 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 11 individuals were removed 

from Jewell County, KS. In 1982, the 

KHS, working under a cooperative 

agreement with Reclamation, excavated 

fragmentary and poorly preserved 

human remains that were eroding into 

Lovewell Reservoir at site 14JW312, aka 

the Begin Ossuary. KHS excavated an 

estimated 10 sets of commingled human 

remains from a burial pit, and one set 

of human remains from an extended 

primary burial. KHS assigned case 

number UBS 1989–29 to the human 

remains. In 1995, Reclamation 

transferred the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to WSU– 

BAL for inventory and secure storage. 

The fragmentary human remains 

collected from 14JW312 belong to an 

infant, a child, an adolescent, and male 

and female adults. The four associated 

funerary objects are one shell disc bead, 

one lot consisting of pottery sherds 

(from at least two different vessels), one 

lot consisting of chipped stone debitage, 

and one lot consisting of unmodified 

deer bones. The associated funerary 

objects date to the Upper Republican 

phase of the Central Plains Tradition 

(A.D. 950–1400). 

14ML1 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Mitchell County, KS. In 1952, the 

Smithsonian Institution’s River Basin 

Surveys (SI–RBS) recommended that a 

salvage excavation be conducted at the 

late prehistoric village site 14ML1, aka 

the Glen Elder Site, prior to its 

destruction by construction of Glen 

Elder Dam. In 1963, the University of 

Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) excavated site 

14ML1 under a cooperative agreement 

with the National Park Service (NPS). 

The 1963 excavation recovered two 

human bones from a filled pit. In 2001, 

graduate students working on faunal 

and artifact curation found additional 

human remains within the 14ML1 

archeological collection. The 

archeological materials from 14ML1 

date to the Central Plains Tradition 

(A.D. 1000–1500). In 2001, Reclamation 

transferred the human remains to WSU– 

BAL for inventory and secure storage. 

The fragmentary human remains 

collected from 14ML1 belong to a 

mature adult of unknown sex. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

14ML5 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Mitchell County, KS. In 1952, the 

SI–RBS recommended that a salvage 

excavation be conducted at the late 

prehistoric village site 14ML5 prior to 

its inundation by Glen Elder Dam and 

Waconda Lake. From 1964 to 1965, the 

UNL excavated site 14ML5 under a 

cooperative agreement with the NPS. 

UNL excavated two earthen lodge floors 

and an extramural work area. Human 

remains were excavated from an 

unknown area within the site. The 

archeological materials from site 14ML5 

are associated with the Solomon River 

phase of the Central Plains Tradition 


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